Ivan Paredes reports for El Deber: COLD BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP U.S. hardens position with Bolivia and withdraws cooperation The decision is given a day when Evo suggested to spy on Obama. In La Paz, masistas ranks say that determination will not affect the country and that without the help of U.S. moves better. Evo Morales was…
Month: February 2014
Inefficiency of the forced industrialization
Armando Mendez writes in Pagina Siete: Inefficiency of the forced industrialization Interventionism and State interventionism is a fact that was firmly in the past. It began in Europe, with what is called mercantilism and dates from the 1500’s. Before in the economy, there was no per capita growth. Production increased as the population increased, equal…
Do Bolivians eat properly?
Monica Briancon writes in La Prensa: POPOLO GRASSO, POPOLO MAGRO [FAT PEOPLE, SKINNY PEOPLE] Some time ago, in a social venue, I was departing with friends, chit chat. One of them, openly, entrusted to the group that in Bolivia being skinny is a luxury. All the others nodded and agreed with the statement. Those who were…
Bolivian History 101: The capitulation of Puerto Alonso
Luis S Crespo wrote in El Diario, January 24, 1923: The capitulation of Puerto Alonso After the founding of Puerto Alonso on the Acre River, the national delegate had issued measures to establish sovereignty in these remote regions. With the Decree of January 4, 1899 it was declared ‘open to merchant navigation of all nations…
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